Electrospinning combined with nonsolvent-induced phase separation to fabricate highly porous and hollow submicrometer polymer fibers

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1761-1766

  Nayani, Karthik ^a   Katepalli, Hari ^a   Sharma, Chandra S ^a,b   Sharma, Ashutosh ^a   Patil, Sandip ^a   Venkataraghavan, R ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY HYDERABAD   (India)

^c Hindustan Lever Limited   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE-SHELL; ELECTROSPINNING PROCESS; ELECTROSPINNING TECHNIQUES; ELECTROSPUNS; HOLLOW FIBER; NON-SOLVENTS; NONSOLVENT-INDUCED PHASE SEPARATION; ONE STEP; PAN FIBER; POLYMER FIBER; RESIDUAL SOLVENTS; SUBMICROMETERS; TIP-TO-COLLECTOR DISTANCE;

DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE; ESTERS; ETHANOL; FIBERS; FILLED POLYMERS; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYMERS; STYRENE; TOLUENE;

ELECTROSPINNING;

EID: 84863395392     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie2009229     Document Type: Article

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